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A list of books banned in various places in the US in the past year. It was posted on the books board at CBR. Someone else graphed the info by state (here).

I am... not very surprised. Except maybe by the four dots in California.

Now I have the urge to go look these up in a bookstore and read them... Just because. :p

...even if I hardly post there on the board. (Yay for shadow-modding.)

Buncha idiots tried to argue that the fact that a banned person sees a "you don't have permission to access this page/site" page when they try to log in still indicates that the server recognizes them... as fitting under the criteria for being "a member of the boards"... in order to be eligible for the Citizen of the Month election.

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Yeah. -_-

Well, these are Slayven fans. Why am I not surprised? *rolleyes*

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Though I'm rather amused by the fact that the mods spelled it out in the rules on the first page that "you *must* be a current member of CBR at the time of this election... blah blah eligible to vote and be voted for blah" ... and that "no off topic-ness allowed on this thread". And yet... people are still blaming the mods for being so goshdarn ambiguous in our rules, and so goshdarn facist in deleting off topic quibbling about voting for someone's who's banned.

Check that. The idiocy probably starts with the fact that they even thought of voting for a *banned* person, and then turned around and insisted that it wasn't some kind of idiotic protest against the banning, but an actual legitimate vote in the election. *gag*

Chuck got temp-banned for a week from CBR.

It wasn't from anything he did on Rumbles, though. He's actually been fairly quiet there recently. No, the lobbying this time came from the DCU board mod, Arune, regarding the two "Identity Crisis 3" threads there.

So, yes, I read the threads in question. It made my eyes bleed, but I read 'em. Sure, Chuck went overboard muchly there, but he wasn't by far the only one who ought to be punished, IMO. Some of those other folks were just as bad, and both sides were egging each other on down the thread, ditching civility as they went... but I guess Chuck just stood out a lot.

Well, okay, and Arune cited that his posting many pages of scans up from the comic in question was illegal. However, I've yet to be able to find a clear source on the copyright/fair use issue that illuminates just how much can you reproduce from a comic legally. I'd've thought it would've fallen under the "reproduction for purposes of critique" category. But someone else told me that it's a 5-10% of the total book/work/comic limit. I think I'll need some cites and stuff for this...

And in other news, people over at SHC/ICT are still whining about the "ICT vs. Rumbles" thread that Matt closed a couple of days ago. They're deluding themselves if they think that 1) such a thread could be debated on without degenerating into a flamewar and 2) that it wasn't slated for locking the moment it was posted. Someone gave me a link to their thread over there, and I just have to say that I am so unsurprised at the massive rewriting of history/memory some of those folks have done.

Oh, and I'm also counting down until they find out that Chuck's gone for a week and then the stupider of the bunch decide that this would be an excellent time to come over to Rumbles to troll. Again.

The Comm Board actually has a thread on the topic of menstruation... I find this utterly amusing.

A lot of reactions on that thread like you would expect. Quite a few immature boys shooting their mouths off. However, there were a few insightful and informative posts by some (Solaris, Greg Hatcher, etc). And I think I might have learned a thing or two I didn't know before. Of course, I dunno how biologicall accurate the info is... I leave the bio stuff up to cashew, is she wants to take a peek.

In the process of upgrading vBulletin versions for CBR, Jonah accidentally deleted everything.

EVERYTHING.

All... gone... T_T

And curse it all, I was behind on my backups for the 2.0 thread too, which means a lot of the story posts, outside of a few rough drafts on GJ, are gone as well. *sobs* I'm getting the feeling that my writer's block will be come irrelevant in this new... era.

*Wagh!!* T_T

the aim chat transcript i promised ossian earlier today... um... yesterday?:

click here

ignore the angelfire banners, annoying as they are.

must go sleepy bye now. @_@

I love it (not) when posters start accusing other posters of being tattle-tells and crying to the mods when confronted with doing something wrong. What are you, fifth grade? *rolleyes* What the heck do you kiddies think the Moderators are there for?

Second of all, it is the utmost stupidity to go and parody someone else's work without permission and in an inflammatory manner, and then post it on the same messageboard they go to. We're not even talking about copyright issues. The X-board's caption contests have undoubtedly committed similar "crimes" dozens of times over, as well as any time someone scans and posts a comic/manga page. No, we're talking about something that's gonna be a much more immediate problem for the culprit. We're talking about trolling.

I don't really care one way or the other if Munchy and Sandman did a parody of CBF's webcomic in private, like over email or something. Nor when cashew wrote that slashfic between... two certain posters, not to mention the whole "forcing Pell to write porn" thing, plastered all over AIM. And even if I ever happen to be a victim of a similiar event, it still wouldn't be my responsibility to deal with it. It's when these things get posted up on the boards that it does, and must become my problem.

You'd think that with Munchy and Sandman being long-time posters, they ought to understand this already. They don't magically get exemptions from the rules (written or common sense/etiquette) just because they're on friendly terms with me and don't hail from SHC. Well, I guess I definitely overestimated their intelligence and common sense in this case, or possibly underestimated their pettiness and immaturity. *sighs*

Not that CBF handled the whole thing all that well, in my opinion. Reporting the problem to the moderator was the right thing to do. Getting into a flamewar with Munchy and Z-man (why the heck was he sticking his oar in there anyhow?!?) on the board over the issue was not helpful, not that I'd expected anything different from him. Granted, he had cause, since the thread was an obvious flamebait, and Munchy & Z-man were both being stubborn about it. Granted also, he was the injured party, and the other side certainly wasn't making any sense in their defense of the insult. Still, throwing another hothead into that conversation was just asking for an explosion.

Hopefully, certain people will have learned their lesson about this. If not, I guess I'll need to knock some sense into them when I log on AIM tonight and they bring it up.

I am really *sick* of people like Jack taking every single chance they get (and making their own chances besides) to bash Elves (and cats) on CBR. Half the time I'm almost convinced that he (they) do it just to see the reactions from those who like Elves (and cats). Moreso on the former, since there's less fans around to defend them.

You don't see me going around bashing Dwarves and dogs left and right whenever a "Elves vs Dwarves" or "Dogs vs Cats" subject comes up? I might praise the side I like, or just vote for my side, but I sure don't go out of my way to sling mud at the other side.

*is highly irritated*

Okay, I went on a card-making spree last night and got a lot of Kenshin cards done. Since it'd be pain to upload them onto GJ and then link them one by one, I made a webpage instead. Here it is.

I still need some flavor text for those, either narration or dialogue. And also, I still have the rest of the Juppon Gatana, which I need to find good pictures for, as well as Okina and the minor Oniwabanshu peeps.

( Some quotes that DK suggested )

Meanwhile, over at Rumbles, it seems that Munchy has been busy making joke cards based on stuff pulled out from the bowels of Soap Operus. I think he's rediscovered many of cashew's works of art, and has made some... interesting cards. They're all very funny. I'll link 'em here:

Slayven Kitty
Slayven Kitty 2
Ball collector
Munchy Poodle
Watcher w/ Mallet
Dudes
Pell Torture

Heh. Heheheh...

Update: More Mewie-inspired cards.

Cheeksworld
Z-mage
Disgruntled Mods
Chuckg

So I'm in the process of streamlining my YvtW MtG cards with the new card-maker program.

Here's the page.

I've redone both the 2.0, 3.0, and non-character pages. The 0.2 page is still the old version. Lookit the vast differences.

BTW, Mg, if you're reading this... double check my mana costs for game balance or whatnot, k? Thanks.